Authored by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC, the inscription begins with a brief autobiography of Darius, including his ancestry and lineage.

* Cambyses, 530 – 522 BC: Book 2 and part of Book 3 ;

* Nebuchadnezzar III ( Niditu-bel ), who rebelled against Darius I of Persia in 522 BC

Gandhara and Sattagydia ( Thatagus ) are listed amongst the provinces inherited by Darius when he seized the throne in 522 BC in his commemorative Behistun inscription, however, the dates of the initial annexation of these two regions is not certain.

* Pisistratus the younger, r. 522 – 521 BC, see Archon_of_Athens # Annual_archons

522 – 443 BC ), mentions the cock, Homer ( ca.

* 522 BC – Darius I of Persia kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the Persian Empire.

( The element of a ring thrown into the sea and found back in a fish's belly later appeared in Herodotus ' account of Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC.

Category: 522 BC deaths

Immediately after Darius seized Persia, Babylonia briefly recovered its independence under a native ruler, Nidinta-Bel, who took the name of Nebuchadnezzar III, and reigned from October 522 BC to August 520 BC, when Darius took the city by storm.

* 522 BC — Bardiya succeeds Cambyses II as ruler of Persia.

* 522 BC — Babylon rebels against Persian rule.

* 522 BC — Darius I succeeds Bardiya as ruler of Persia.

* 522 BC — Cambyses II, ruler of ancient Persia

* 522 BC — Polycrates, tyrant of Samos

* September, 522 BC — Bardiya, ruler of ancient Persia

* 443 BC – Pindar, Greek poet ( b. c. 522 BC )

Elias Bickerman speculates that one of the reasons that Zerubbabel was able to rebuild the Temple was because of “ the widespread revolts at the beginning of the reign of Darius I in 522 BC, which preoccupied him to such a degree that Zerubbabel felt he could initiate the rebuilding of the temple without repercussions ”.

* Pindar, Greek poet ( b. 522 BC )

Likewise, the meticulously accurate mythographer, Pindar ( 522 – 443 BC ), also makes no mention of Zeus:

The original radio announcer for the team was Bill Schonely, who served as the team's radio play-by-play announcer from 1970 until his retirement in 1998 — calling 2, 522 Blazers games — and remains with the team as a community ambassador.

One of the bixi ( tortoise ) | tortoise stelae of Xiao Dan ( 478 — 522 ), a member of the Liang Dynasty | Liang royal family.

The New Zealand Climaxes are No's 522 ( Tokomaru — stored ), 1203 ( Greymouth — stored ), 1317 ( Te Awamutu — Under static restoration ), and 1650 ( Pukemiro — stored ).

* 1901 — 522, 204 in the city proper, 630, 162 in the urban area.

In 522, Emperor Wu's nephew Xiao Zhengde — whom he had previously adopted but then unadopted when Xiao Tong was born — resentful that he was not created crown prince, fled to Northern Wei, claiming to be the deposed crown prince and requesting Northern Wei aid.

— 522 p. — ISBN 0-7007-1462-6 ( cased ), ISBN 0-7007-1463-4 ( pbk.

If Pindar was indeed her pupil, it may be assumed that she was born some years earlier than his birthdate of 522 BC.

The Greek poet Pindar ( born in approximately 522 BCE ) employed creative etymologies to flatter his patrons.

The word rhapsodos was in use as early as Pindar ( 522 – 443 BC ), who implies two different explanations of it, " singer of stitched verse ", and " singer with the staff ".

522 – 443 BC ), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

Bardiya (, Bardiya ;,, Greek: Smerdis ) ( possibly died 522 BCE ) was a son of Cyrus the Great and the younger brother of Cambyses II, both Persian kings.

For Emperor Darius I The Great of Persia ( 522 BC – 485 BC ), the Greek Mandrocles of Samos once engineered a pontoon bridge that stretched across the Bosporus, linking Asia to Europe, so that Darius could pursue the fleeing Scythians as well as move his army into position in the Balkans to overwhelm Macedon.

In the Periplus of Scylax, Scylax of Caryanda, a Greek traveler and geographer active between 522 and 485 B. C., mentions the presence of Celtic-speaking peoples settled in northeast Italy.

In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Revolts broke out during the 9-year reign of his son, Rimush ( 2278 – 2270 BC ), who fought hard to retain the empire — and in the fifteen year reign of Rimush's elder brother, Manishtushu ( 2269 – 2255 BC ).

However, according to Xenophon, Polydorus was murdered by his brother Polyphron, who was, in turn, murdered by his nephew Alexander — son of Jason, in 369 BC.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens — after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC on both sides of the family, excluding the children of Athenian men and foreign women.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Nineveh — where Jonah preached — was the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, which fell to the Medes in 612 BC.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

In 500 BC, Hou Fan — the governor of Hou — revolted against his lord of the Shu family.

In addition, Pausanias relates that at the time of the Persian invasion in 480 BC the Athenians were advised by the oracle to put their faith in their " wooden walls " — taking this advice to mean their navy, they won the famous battle at Salamis.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

Greeks in the late fifth and early 4th centuries BC considered their oldest poets to be Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod and Homer — in that order.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

* 1953 BC Bobcat — Prototype